Word: coking
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...freight cars. Of these 25,000 will be coal cars to meet the greater demand for overland transportation of coal and coke; 35,000 will be low-sided gondolas, 10,000 will be flat cars, both of which types are ideal for carrying tanks, artillery, other heavy pieces peculiar to war production. These cars, purchased at the railroads' own expense, are an outright contribution to the war effort; the carriers already have a surplus of such equipment for their expected peacetime needs. New boxcars, which the railroads can always use, are limited to about...
Harvard Hall and Boylston steps took on the appearance of a midwestern university, and coke dates, typical mark of the co-ed college, helped to sustain the feminine newcomers between classes...
...basic trouble is that butadiene can be produced in too many different ways: from the products of oil refining; from coke plants; from ethyl alcohol made either synthetically or out of such farm products as wheat, molasses, potatoes, etc. So synthetic rubber became still another battleground on which farm "chemurgy" proponents hurled their imprecations at the oil refiners...
...Kronstadt. The Baltic was a German lake and Sweden eased up on convoying. But the Red Fleet did not stay bottled. Submarines, perhaps other warships, broke through mines and nets blocking the Gulf and resumed raiding. Sweden last month resumed convoying. As of this week no German coal or coke had reached Sweden for ten days and Swedish papers warned that none could be expected for another ten. The United Nations had scored some success in hitting at Hitler's vital supply lines...
...make sponge iron, ore is not smelted. It is mixed with pulverized coal (natural gas can also be used) and coke, then fed to a large rotary kiln. When the kiln is heated to 1,800°F., the powdered coal first robs the ore (iron oxide) of its oxygen, then turns into gas, leaving fairly pure iron granules which have a spongy texture. This stuff can then be fed to the steel furnaces...